I Run Even If It’s Raining

I Run Even If It’s Raining

“I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.” 

---Dean Karnazes

“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grief which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

---Henry Ford

“Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.”

--Anna Lee

“Though it may rain cats and dogs, I will never stop running.” This has been one of the principles that hold my life together. I solidly believe that the purpose of your existence transcend the suffering, the setbacks and the challenges of this life, if you could refuse to look at the horror of the two-headed dragon emitting fire from its mouth, you will have great feat and fulfill your purpose and dreams in life.

Many times when I look back at several events that arose in my life and posed itself to have dashed all my hopes but I grew through them and came out stronger and having a bright promising future, it gives me a clear understanding of how life goes by its gimmicks to decide who is fit to carry on to the next phase of trials and confrontations that lands us into greater glory and fulfillment. Life has never been cheaply easy; it takes confidence and courage to battle till the saying ‘victory at last’.

Time comes in everyone’s life when there is rains of the usually unwanted trials, challenges, confrontation and all forms of problems that is supposedly believed to be impossible to triumph over, the only way to overcome is to keep running till the rain is over, if you stop, it soaks your life, make you cold and sick till you lose your feet and breaks you down, but if you keep running, God will give you the strength to see you through and commands the universe to open the door to the hut where you get a fine new garment of victory that beautifies your life and make you worthy to stand among great men that have travelled the same journey. When we overcome trials and confrontations, we become triumphant; there is no other way around it. It is either you never stop running when it is raining and when thunderstorm gives all its threat, till there is sunshine again and you can dwell in the green pasture or remain at a spot because you are scared to run, then you get battered by the rain and carried away by flood to a place of desolation and regrets. When it rains cats and dogs, keep running, the rain will soon be over and the dark cloud will clear away and the sun will shine and you can smile again.

The tougher the challenges people encounter and overcome; the greater the glory that comes with it. The higher the price you pay for every situations of your life the bigger the prize you get out of it. Seek easy path and you will end in obscurity and mediocrity, choose the tough road and you will definitely land yourself among the people of brave and great personality. I hope you will begin to see that the tough times in your life are necessary to catapult you to that great life you have always imagined, see that your tribulation and adversity has not come to break you but to make you, all you need to do is stay strong. Go ask people who have moved from rags to riches, those who have fought their way from grass to grace, their stories and testimonies are seated on great trials and challenges. If you want to be at the top and live a life of meaning be ready to fight and overcome battles.

Our setbacks and pains help us to become braver and wiser to handle greater things, our confrontations and challenges are the systematic element that life uses to build our character. Life is a chain of experience that if well gone through makes us wiser, stronger and greater. Life is a field of transformation, where the weak becomes strong, and the poor becomes rich, the last becomes first, because they refuse to let their situations make a mess of them.

Even When I Cry !!!

Even When I Cry !!!

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

---Nicole Scherzinger

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

---Maya Angelou

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

---Jim Rohn

Life is battle after battles, in the midst of it we tend to lose hope, get broken and cry but when you pick yourself up, move on with courage and faith to triumph, and wipe away your tears of pain and agony determined to turn it to tears of joy and victory, you undoubtedly become a champion.

One of the seal i have chosen to put on my mind, shouts loud ‘Cry if you want to but even when you cry, don’t lose the strength to combat, overcome and laugh’. Many times i cry in the corner of my room but this is where I get the strength to progress, when I cry, the veil over my sight disappears and the power to visualize better is restored to me. The moments i cry spark the beginning of reinvention for me, it is the opening of a new chapter for clearer visualization and energy to pursue, overtake and acquire. When i cry, my blocked head is re-opened to meditate on how bright, blissful and promising my future is, my crying moment is an awakening moment.

Never cry to break yourself down, cry to wake yourself up from your longtime slumber. I do believe if life is all about laughing, then people will have no reason to think of the consequence of their actions, when we are aware of the outcomes of our decisions, actions and attitudes towards life, we do everything we can to appreciate our happiness and joy, when we mistakenly lose it, we fight hard to get it back because it is the medicine that heals our soul.

We get our greatest joy from been fulfilled, and our fulfillment comes from the activities of our everyday life, man do not need the biggest things in life to be fulfilled, it comes from those simple things that happens to us every minutes of our lives. The simple truth is that, when the small things we don’t pay attention to on daily basis fails, then we realize their importance to our happiness and fulfillment. I can’t forget how happy and fulfilled I was on a day when i was very late to catch a bus to where I have an important meeting, and the connecting bus to the place will come in another 8 minutes, i became terribly worried because i have 14 minutes to catch up with the main bus, i said to myself, it’s time to run, i ran for several kilometers, my heart pumped really hard and my whole system was heated, i wanted to stop at some point but i said to myself don’t give up. I got there exactly at the time the bus had shut the door to go, fortunately for me the driver saw me 30 meters away, waited for me and when i got to my sit, i had great joy and the sweat of fulfillment was all over me. One lesson I learnt from that day’s experience is that ‘whatever hopeless situation I find myself that causes me to cry, even when i cry I will not lose the strength to fight, pursue and achieve my vision and dreams because i know somewhere somehow there are supernatural forces aiding my movement because they see i don’t give up but keep trying’. Keep to your mind this portion of the Bible, Deut. 31:8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."